Problems with 'ndc restart' on BIND 8.3.3

[Ian Bedson]

Hi Doug, et.al.

Actually I never start named explicitly, even the server start up script for
named that I use has a call to 'ndc start' in it. I have always done this
mainly for consistency, and anyway I have never had any problems doing it
this way.

The reason that I posted my message was because all of the BIND releases
that contained the ndc utility up until now have always worked for me
without any problems. It has only been since I upgraded to 8.3.3 that my
scripts have broken.

Anyway, I have just verified the problem that you are describing. I get a
similar behaviour on my test server. If I start named with a fully qualified
path, ndc restart works albeit with the exit code 1 that I am asking about.

However, if I start named without fully qualifying the path, when I executed
ndc restart I got the message:

can't open '@'
ndc: error: could not start new name server (/usr/sbin/named @)

Regards,

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: doug at master.gorean.org [mailto:doug at master.gorean.org]On Behalf Of
Doug Barton
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 4:32 PM
To: Ian Bedson
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Problems with 'ndc restart' on BIND 8.3.3


On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Ian Bedson wrote:

>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have compiled and installed BIND 8.3.3 on my servers in response to the
> recent security alerts. However I am now seeing a new behaviour from the
ndc
> command due (I think) to the way that ndc has been written in this
release.

How do you start named originally? I noticed that ndc core dumps on 'ndc
restart' if I just type 'named' at the command line when I start it. If I
start it with a complete path (like /usr/sbin/named) ndc doesn't have any
problems with restart. I haven't submitted a bug report yet because I
haven't done any thorough testing on it, but when I noticed the problem it
was 100% repeatable.

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